IN BRIEF
Nouf Almarri (نوف المري) is a Qatari investor and technology leader based in Doha. She founded Azm Investments in 2019 to back early-stage founders in Qatar and the MENAT region, and Banan Ventures in 2024, a venture studio that builds Arab artisans and makers into global brands. She spent two decades in Qatar's government technology sector, leading the digital transformation of more than 90 government services and national platforms including Kawader and Eskan. She holds a BSc in Computer Science from Qatar University and an Executive Master's from HEC, and is a member of the 300 women angel investors network at Qatar Science & Technology Park, Finjan VC and Falak VC.
نوف المري مستثمرة وقيادية قطرية في مجال التكنولوجيا، مقيمة في الدوحة. أسّست «عزم للاستثمار» عام 2019 لدعم المؤسسين في مراحلهم المبكرة في قطر ومنطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا وتركيا، و«بنان فنتشرز» عام 2024، وهو استوديو مشاريع يحوّل الحرفيين والصنّاع العرب إلى علامات تجارية عالمية. أمضت عقدين في قطاع التكنولوجيا الحكومي في قطر، قادت خلالهما التحوّل الرقمي لأكثر من 90 خدمة حكومية ومنصات وطنية منها «كوادر» و«إسكان». تحمل بكالوريوس علوم الحاسب من جامعة قطر وماجستيراً تنفيذياً من HEC، وهي عضو في شبكة «300» للمستثمرات الملائكيات في واحة قطر للعلوم والتكنولوجيا، وفي «فنجان» و«فلك» للاستثمار الجريء.
ABOUT ME
For twenty years I worked where a nation’s technology is quietly decided, building the platforms a country depends upon, the systems that outlast the hands that sign them, the infrastructure no citizen sees yet everyone stands upon. I was, for two decades, a strategic leader and advisor in national technology, and I led the transformation of more than ninety government services.
Somewhere in those years I learned the thing I now build everything on: the surface is never the work. Profit, titles, the things that show, they tell you a thing exists. They never tell you whether it deserves to. What lasts is decided underneath, in the quieter questions most people are too impatient to ask.
So today I ask them. Through Azm, I back the founders building what comes next, by the measure of worthiness, not only profit. Through Banan, I carry artisanal masters from a local lineage to the world. In both, I do the same thing I have always done: find rooted talent, and build the frame that lets it rise, then step back, so it stands on its own.
And I write, because writing is how the thinking gets done.
Digital Sovereignty
National Technology Strategy
Institutional Design
Responsible AI
Public-Sector Leadership
Board Governance
Venture Architecture
Writing & Thoughts
SPECIALIZATIONS
The investing:
Worthiness-Based Investing · Early-Stage Ventures · Own-Capital Investment · MENAT Markets · Founder Backing · Portfolio Judgment
The building & the record:
Venture Studios · Artisanal Brand-Building · Responsible Technology · National Digital Infrastructure · Institutional Design · Strategic Advisory
MY APPROACH
Worthiness before profit.
Anything can be made profitable for a while. The harder question, does it deserve to exist, is the one I ask first.
Build the Frame, Then Step Back
The strongest structures set others free. A maker becomes a brand, a nation becomes a sovereign, a team owns the system we built together — and the architect steps back, so the thing can finally stand on its own.
Build to Last
I would rather build one thing that endures than ten that impress. Every system, institution, and brand I shape is made to outlast the moment — and the person — that made it.
EXPERIENCE
RECOGNITION
MY TOOLKIT
PERSONAL NOTE
Beyond the work, I am in Doha — reading, writing, and raising a family alongside the things I build. I believe the work that lasts is built meaningfully, with care, and in good company.
And I hold to a single quiet measure for all of it: حياة طيّبة وأثر طيّب — a good life, and a good trace.






